ducket

Uncertain; perhaps a variant of dovecote. First attested in the late 1900s.

ducket (plural duckets)

1. An aviary or other enclosure for keeping domesticated pigeons; a dovecote.
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 77:

     At the Kyle-fence end of the ducket Jerry’s recently designed trapdoor allowed Monte a shoofty freedom - even from Grandad - which he never had before.

2. (historical, British) A windowed, box-like structure mounted to the top or side of the brake van of a train, from which the guard has a clearer view along the railway track.
   • 1952 January, “British Railways Standard Wagons”, in Railway Magazine, page 59:

     Access to the veranda is by means of hinged doors, and a deep ducket or projection is provided on each side to form a lookout.

ducket (third-person singular simple present duckets, present participle ducketing, simple past and past participle ducketed)

1. (Of a pigeon) to enter its ducket.
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 104:

     Mrs Allsop and her bar-blue brother travelled well together in good times, but after they ducketed she would chase him from niche to niche, henpecking him while Monte tried to collar them and collect their rings.

• “ducket”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

ducket (plural duckets)

1. Obsolete form of ducat.

• tucked

• Audio:

  (file)

ducket

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of ducken